★Starlite★ Boxing's Sweetscience©®™: Apr 28, 2012

Saturday, April 28, 2012

"Hopkins vs. Dawson: Once And For All," live on HBO World Championship Boxing® beginning at 10:15 p.m. ET/PT.

"Hopkins vs. Dawson: Once And For All," a 12-round bout for Hopkins' WBC and Ring Magazine light heavyweight world championships, is presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Gary Shaw Productions and sponsored by Corona, AT&T and Caesars Atlantic City. Also featured will be a 12-round heavyweight battle between Seth "Mayhem" Mitchell and "The Gentleman" Chazz Witherspoon for the vacant NABO heavyweight title. The doubleheader will take place at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey and will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing® beginning at 10:15 p.m. ET/PT.

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Bernard Hopkins & Chad Dawson's promoter Gary Shaw go at it at the Rematch Presser

Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson's promoter Gary Shaw exchange words at the Hopkins vs. Dawson Rematch press conference. The fight takes place Saturday, April 28th, 2012 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. It will be broadcast live on HBO World Championship Boxing.

Bernard Hopkins accuses promoter Gary Shaw of lobbying the NJ Boxing Commission

Light Heavyweight Champion Bernard Hopkins accuses Chad Dawson's promoter Gary Shaw of lobbying the NJ Boxing Commission. The Rematch fight between Hopkins vs. Dawson will take place Saturday, April 28th, 2011 at Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ. It will be broadcast live on HBO World Championship Boxing.

Chad Dawson & Bernard Hopkins Rematch Point of View

Former champion Chad Dawson and Light Heavyweight Champion Bernard Hopkins express their point of view on how the rematch fight will go. The fight takes place Saturday, April 28th, 2012 at Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ. It will broadcast live on HBO World Championship Boxing.

FOX SPORTS MEDIA GROUP ENTERS BOXING RING WITH GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS‏

FOX Sports Media Group (FSMG), the umbrella entity representing News Corporation's wide array of multi-platform U.S.-based sports assets,announced today that it has reached a multi-year, multi-media agreement with Golden Boy Promotions to provide live boxing content in the United States and internationally. Golden Boy Promotions, owned by renowned former Ten-Time World Champion Oscar de la Hoya, is the first Hispanic-owned boxing promotional company in America doing business domestically and internationally.

Domestically, Golden Boy fights will be carried on FOX Deportes, the leader in U.S. Latino sports media, on FOX Sports regional networks, the nation's leading provider of local sports and FUEL TV, FSMG's dynamic sports network for males and television's fastest-growing cable network. One originally produced boxing event per month from the United States airs live on FOX Deportes, FUEL TV and FOX Sports regional networks. Additionally, live boxing events from cities throughout Mexico will be carried on FOX Deportes. The first U.S. event is scheduled for Friday, May 4 (11:00 PM ET/8:00 PM PT), live from The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and features an all-Mexican battle between former World Champion Daniel Ponce De Leon of Cuauhtemoc and Juarez's Eduardo "El Chucky" Lazcano in a 12-round main event for the vacant WBC USNBC Super Featherweight title and, in the co-feature, perennial contender and Las Vegas favorite Ishe "Sugar Shay" Smith facing Derrick Ennis in a 10-round junior middleweight bout.

During the first year of the partnership, FOX Deportes is scheduled to air a total of 44 live events originating in both the United States and Mexico; for every year thereafter, the network airs 36 live events. In addition, FSMG networks gain access to classic fights from the Golden Boy fight library which features fights of past and current world champions such as Oscar de la Hoya, Bernard Hopkins, Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera.

"Led by the incomparable Oscar de la Hoya, Golden Boy Promotions has developed a great reputation over the last few years for putting together very exciting cards," said Bill Wanger, Executive Vice president, Programming & Research, FOX Sports Media Group. "It's great that we've been able to establish what we hope will be a fruitful relationship that benefits multiple networks within the FOX Sports Media Group for years to come."

"We are excited about our new partnership with FOX Sports Media Group," said Oscar de la Hoya, President of Golden Boy Promotions. "This is another step in ensuring that fight fans around the world don't miss out on any of the great boxing action we present, both in the United States and Mexico. It's a very important move towards increasing viewership and knowledge of our great sport. We are thrilled about this new partnership."

Internationally, FOX's networks have exclusive rights to FOX's U.S.-produced fights throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa and Europe and to fight cards originating in Mexico throughout most of South America, the Caribbean and Europe.

Additionally, FOX's networks have exclusive rights to Golden Boy's Solo Boxeo series in Mexico and Central America, while FOX Sports Brazil has rights to select Golden Boy Promotions premier events.

Cujo VS Kelly Pavlik on ESPN2; "A slice of life documentary on Cujo will be coming soon!

Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tony Thompson July 7th in Switzerland

40-year-old Tony Thompson (36-2, 24 KO’s) thinks he’s got the skills to beat IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (57-3, 50 KO’s) in their rematch on July 7th in Switzerland. Thomson failed miserably last time he fought Wladimir four years ago in an 11th round TKO in Hamburg, Germany in 2008. Now four years older, and even slower than he was then, Thompson thinks he can get a knockout this time.

Thompson said to fightnews.com “Last time I had an injury…I will complete what I missed four years ago. I will knock Klitschko out and take all his belts to the U.S.”

It sounds like a hopeless pipe dream on Thompson’s part. He did have a knee injury for that fight, but he was going to lose anyway because his shots lacked power and speed and he was eating solid right hands from Wladimir round one. By the 11th, Thompson looked groggy from all the right hands he’d eaten. In the rematch, I see it much the same way but with a lot more clinching and leaning by Wladimir. I hope Thompson’s previously injured knee is in good shape because he’s going to have Wladimir leaning all his weight on him for at least 10 clinches per round. Thompson will wear down quickly with Wladimir leaning on him, and we should see a KO by the 4th or 5th round.

This mismatch is pretty much identical to Wladimir’s recent fight against another 40-year-old Jean Marc Mormeck, who Wladimir stopped in the 4th last month. Wladimir is facing a lot older fighters now and they talk a good fight, but they lack the physical skills, talent and youth to beat him. If Thompson couldn’t hang with Wladimir four years ago when Thompson was 36, he certainly won’t be able to now that he’s 40.

Granted, Thompson has won his last five fights since then but they’ve all been against 2nd tier opposition. There have been no risky fights for Thompson, and it’s quite sad that he’s being as Wladimir’s IBF mandatory off of a win over journeyman Maurice Harris and four other 2nd tier fighters. Thompson at least should have to beat someone like Denis Boytsov to get another title shot rather than getting a another crack after five easy fights

"Ring Kings: Mayweather vs. Cotto"

"Ring Kings: Mayweather vs. Cotto," a 12-round fight for Cotto's WBA Super Welterweight World Championship and the vacant WBC Super Welterweight Diamond Belt, is promoted by Mayweather Promotions, Golden Boy Promotions and Miguel Cotto Promotions. Also featured will be Canelo Alvarez vs. Sugar Shane Mosley, a 12-round fight for Canelo's WBC Super Welterweight World Championship which is presented in association with Canelo Promotions and Sugar Shane Mosley Promotions and a 10-round welterweight fight between undefeated rising star Jessie Vargas and perennial contender Alfonso Gomez. Opening the pay-per-view broadcast will be a 10-round bout between super welterweight contenderDeAndre Latimore and former World Champion Carlos Quintana which is presented in association with DiBella Entertainment. The mega event is sponsored by Corona, Hatfields & McCoys on HISTORY™, DeWalt Tools, AT&T, O'Reilly Auto Parts and Puebla - Cinco De Mayo and will take place Saturday, May 5 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View® beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.

CUNNINGHAM – TARVER: A Social Media Experiment

After many months of disregarding and downplaying a potential bout with former two-time IBF Cruiserweight champion Steve “USS” Cunningham, former Light Heavyweight world champion Antonio Tarver has finally stepped up to the plate, well sort of.

For the past several months, Cunningham & Tarver have been going back in forth on twitter but whenever the prospect of a fight gets brought up, Tarver has had one excuse after another and then Tarver took a June 2^nd fight with little known Lateef Kayode.

Well finally Tarver, has acknowledged that a fight with Cunningham would be a meaningful one and has said a fight with Cunningham could happen if Cunningham could get support of the fans to tune in by garnering 20,000 twitter followers.

Team Cunningham decided to step up to the challenge and has launched a twitter campaign titled, "Can Twitter Make A Fight?- @USSvsMagicMan". This social media experiment will see if twitter is a powerful enough tool to get this fight made with the support of 20,000 boxing fans. The team acknowledges that this is a tall order given the lack of attention the cruiserweight division gets in the states, but they feel that if fans want to see a good fight, this should not matter.

When asked about the prospect of this fight happening, Cunningham said, "This is a fight I have wanted for the longest and Tarver has made up many excuses to not make it happen. I was honestly ready to move on from the idea, but he made the challenge and me and my team are crazy enough to call him on it. Following @USSvsMagicMan is not about being a fan of mine or Tarver's it's about being a fan of boxing and wanting to see a good fight and taking action to get it made".

Boxing fans are now asked to simply follow @USSvsMagicMan and when the number soars to the magic number of 20,000 then this important fight can and will happen.

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